Letter
Noyes to Charles Seymour, March 3, 1884
Letter from Rev. H. V. Noyes, one of the veterans of the American Presbyterian mission in Southern China, to Mr. Seymour.
Canton, March 3, 1884.
A.
Sir: I have much pleasure in reporting to you that on Friday, February 29, at Sheklung, I received from the Chinese military official Tongon-Pang, $370, being amount in full of indemnity claimed for losses at the Sheklung chapel incurred at the time of the mob there on the 16th of December, 1883.
In behalf of the mission to which I belong, as well as myself, I wish to express warm thanks for the prompt and efficient, manner in which you dealt with this matter, thereby securing so speedy and satisfactory a settlement.
H. V. NOYES.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.